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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.
London: printed by Matthew Simmons, 1650
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 16 › Verse 8
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Which witness against me.
Which witnesse against me.
I shall give the meaning of that, when I have opened the latter clause, where it is repeated, My leanness rising up in me, beareth witness to my face: both parts of the Verse have the same meaning.
I shall give the meaning of that, when I have opened the latter clause, where it is repeated, My leannesse rising up in me, beareth witnesse to my face: both parts of the Verse have the same meaning.
My leanness rising up in me.
My leannesse rising up in me.
Some think, that Job answers what Eliphaz had given, as part of the description of a wicked man, in the fullness of his prosperity (Chap. 15.27.) where he tells us, that, He covereth his face with fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks; as if he had said, Friend Eliphaz, thou hast told me, that wicked men are fat and full, if so, what are they who are lean and meagre? canst thou according to thy own rule, read wickedness in my physiognomy? My leanness riseth up in me, canst thou raise an argument from that against me?